4 Quotes by Rick Roderick

It’s not utopian to demand that in a world with this kind of technology, that as a moral demand, a society feed, clothe and house its people. A society that doesn’t do it, with the kind of technology and the wealth we have is beneath contempt and makes a mockery of all the previous history of civilization.

In Greek society, that’s unthinkable because a polis is a place where the only force that a free person is supposed to recognise, is that peculiar unforced force of the better argument. That’s what differentiates you from a slave. You don’t argue with slaves in Greek society, they obey, and you tell them.

When you see these struggles, you hear this word: “FREEDOM.” It’s part of the struggle to announce it, that it’s your aim, without necessarily filling it with content...

a lot of people have died because they read a book the wrong way